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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-22
Bankrupt Sale.

Bargains in all departments at the
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-22
a MOST UNHAPPY RACE.

MOST UNHAPPY RACE.
Father Huntington, in the article referred
to, says: Bodily cleanliness is almost i,npos-
sible. Bathrooms are unknown in tenement
houses, and the public baths, open only few
months in the year, often afford but fresh op-
portunitieS for vice. In most families what
little washing is done must be done in the
presence of others, and often all the water
used must be carried up three OF four flights
OF narrow winding stairs" These people eat
their food from bare tables. AS there is
seldom enough upon these tables to satisfy
the hunger Of the eaters, 4 meal is frequently
n game Of grab, the nimblest and strongest
getting the lions share. The various savage
Or semi-civilized tribes of the earth, with
whom our missionaries have made us SO
familiar, are usually happy in their mode of
living, and manifest 10 desire to change their
habitat or customs. But these people of
which we are treating now are q most IN
happy race of men, and frequently evince
desires TO live like the unapproachable Brah-
min classes around them. The Pariahs Of
India were never known to manifest any such
ambition. Though nominaliy these American
citizen Pariahs are free TO rise into the higher
orders OF caste, yet practically the barriers
are SO great they are seldom able to sur1nouuJ
them. The majority of the people Of this
lower caste die in infancy. Many of those
who survive the period of childhood are car
ried of by malarial diseases in their early
youth, or by contagious developed by their
irregular habits of life. Those who do not
perish by disease Or suicide give themselves
Up TO a life long melancholy, which Is only
alleviated by the free use of the grossest
intoxicants. Suffering under the defects OF
intoxicantS, many Of these people pass only a
few intermittent hours Of sanity. and these
sane moments are frequently more intolerable
than the hours of their self imposed alcoholic
madness
The above picture is not overdrawn 1t is
a graphic pen portrayal of large class of
people that live right among US, under our
municipal laws and III the center of our re-
publican civilization. 1t is in these sli,rlv
plague spots OF our Christian cities that
anarchy breathes the miasnGl air on which
it thTives. These people are menace to
our institutions, not premeditatedy or will
fully, but because the conditions under
which they live are subverSive of all order
and inimical to all law and governmental
restraint
1t is evident that here is vast field in
which the missionary, tho philanthropist and
the economist can profiIably make explora-
ton The cheap tenement house problem is
one not beneath the dignity Of the highest
craftsmanship w ToSS IN Ro-ton Cylolo
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-22

Life in Loathsome Island of SquaIor
and Wretchedness--A Most Unhappy
Race Of Men-A Field for the Mission
airy.
Father J. Q. s. Huntington, in recent
number Of The Forum, publishes startling
article entitled Tenement House Morality"
In this article he shows how well nigh impos
sible it is for people hudiled together in these
contracted man dens to observe the decencies
OF life, or even live according to the looSest
standard Of correct conduct
This article furnishes much information
upon the subject Of which the well dressed
people of the United States are densely igno-
rant. We have shown a commendable Curl
osity in regard to the home life of the Bur
nese. the personal habits of the Hottentot,
The moral status of the Eskimo and the Lap
lander. knowledge of these distant peoples
Is a part Of our school and church education
Our information embraces III its comprehe1i-
give grasp the people Of the antipodes, but
does not extend into the back streets of our
homes cities.
So it is well to be reminded that there is a
unique and peculiar race of people grown up
under our civilization, and yet not forming
part Of it, living, as it We're, in loathsome
Island Of sqUalor and wretchednsss in the
midst Of surrounding ocean of wealth and
magnificence. These people form colonies by
themselves, which are seldom explored ex-
cspt by the landlord and TIE undertaken
Their habits Of life are peculiar, and fully Is
worthy Of study as the habits of the Arabs or
Che Soudanese. They live in dilapdated
wooden buildings, FIVE or six stories high,
l. =
ways Families of six or seven persons fire.
quently cook. eat and sleep in one room
They never read book, and two cent
newspaper is frequently luxury that their
means viii not permit, il by any chance they
know how TO read.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-22

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ga1lY Eagle
IN THE TENEMENTS.
A PECULIAR RACE GROWN UP
UNDER OUR CIVILIZATION.

Life In q Loathsome Island of SquaIor
and Wretchedness-A Most Unhappy
Race Of lIen-A Field for the Mission
ary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23

of $50 subjects between the ages of % and
so, who had passed under his observation, 90
were either bald or getting so, and the Curl
Gus fact was brought 10 light that 81 out of
the 90 were wines drinkers.
In 80 habitual spirit drinkers, men of
similar ages, he found 7partly bald and IL
quite bald. Among total abstainers, on the
other hand, he found 9 partly bald and Z
totally bald out of so. After obtaining
drinking drunkards, ~ the investigation re-
sulting in the discovery that 5 were parti-
ally bald and quite bald. 1t was only
fair, however, to add that the spirit
drinkers were well-to-do, while the beer
drinking drunkards belonged to the very
poorest class.
On another occasion he made notes of 140
bald persons of mixed classes and of vari-
Gus ages. This showed that Az wore full
boards, As shaved nearly the whole face Al
shaved only the chin and shaved only the
moustache, thus showing that the beard
had little to do with badness as a cause
In his own experience since 1879 when this
matter began to especially engage attention,
he was not able to demonstrate concluSively
the transmission of any special fungus or
parasite from lower animals to man or
woman in this excessive hair falling or bald
ness.
ne Istu never pceIl III pcSlulou W uO UlAS
experimentally, yet his conviction was that
the dog and the cat were often the cause of
some hair loss; and PSYCHOLOGISTS should study
and test the question when they had an OPP
portunity of witnessing the commencement
of extensive hair falling, when no other
cause could with certainty be proved or
even assigned for it. 1t was becoming an
increased belief that dogs were subject to
some unknown disease which caused bald
ness to human beings. Cases of this kind
had been brought within his view, and had
induced him to givea good deal of attention
to the subject.
In one instance, Mr.. Wheeler said, gen
lelnan, an artist, had large black retriever
dog, whose coat had suddenly become gray,
in fact almost white, and it was being shed
in such large quantities that he could not be
had in the house without everything be
touched being covered with hairs. This
gentleman had a beautiful head of hair
when he first spoke about the dog, but when
he came again the next year he was quite
bald He also said the female servant that
attended the dog had lost nearly the whole
of her hair. 81
For himself he was convinced that the
continuous electric current was the most
active and efficient hair stimulant of the
day 1t was remedy of great therapeutic
value when used as an accessory to other
remedies.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23
A CENTEN ARIAN.
A Witness of the Reign of Terror in
France.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
a Constantinople correspondent writes to
us as follows with reference to remarkable
centenarian who had been a friend of
RobeSpierre: Constantinople has just lost
its oldest inhabitant in the person of M.
Dimitrios Antippa, who died ON the 10th
inst. at the extraordinary age of lis. He
really counted as a figure in history, though
few who knew him and respected him as
modest yet influential merchant were aware
how eventful had been the early part of his
long life. He was born in 1772, at Cepha-
lonia his parents being engaged in COM
MERGE at Constantinople. Here he remained
until he was 10, when, yielding to the per-
suasions of the attache at the French En-
bassy, NJ. Chenier, brother of the famous
poet and great friend of the family, An
tippa pere resolved to send his son to Paris,
the centre of thought aud learning, where
he might complete his education in the best
way. The boy saw the French capital dur
ing its most awful revolutionary period. He
witnessed all the CHASTITY scenes of the
Reign of Terror. He knew Marat, Danton,
and Robespierre personally. As Greek he
could frequent both Girondist and Mon
tagnard society, and was intimate now with
Camille Desmoulins and Barnave, now with
Tallien and st. Just. In Nine. Tallien's
salon he danced the Carmagnole and sang
'Ca ira" He was a friend of
poor Andre Chenier, and saw
him die. He also was present
at the murder of Marie Antoinette on the
scaffold. In fact he witnessed the guillotine
destroy all its most famous victims When
the storm had passed, in the calm time
which succeeded it, young Antippa returned
to his parental home at Constantinople, and
started life as merchant From numerous
friends of note in Paris he had obtained
most fiattering letters of recommendation
and these helped him at once to get complete
recognition in the French society of Con-
stantinople, then far more powerful than it
is to-day. The Embassies, one and all, re-
ceived him as distinguished guest, and the
French Ambassador became his most init
mate friend. At the French Embassy young
Antippa is said to have first introduced the
Carmagnole, which was danced in Pera
during the carnival of 1794-5.
In his habits NJ. Antippa was most retir-
ing, even reserved and cold toward stran-
ers. For eighty years he lived at his resid-
ence at Tatavla, on the heights facing the
Turkish capital 1t was within easy distance
of his Office at Galata, to which he was won't
to ride daily, invariably attended by SER
Uout
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23
Four Dollars a Month.
Y. J. Holland in Pittsb,rq Dispntcj

W. a. fIOttelft0 III %tSoHy DCSpQCCns
The largest manufacturer of porcelain in
Kioto is Kinko-san, who employs over 500
workmen. These are not, however con-
gregated in one gre It building or group of
buildings, but are scattered over a large
neighborhood in Awata | was permitted
this afternoon to inspect the various pro-
cesses in the manufacture of the pore lain
under the guidance of the proprietor him
self. The bulk of the ware made is de-
signed for expectation, and great deal of
| it goes to the United States and England
Most of it is very pretty and all Of it is,
considering the amount of labor bestowed
upon it, remarkably cheap
| | was at some pains to ascertain the prices
| paid for labor IN the cloissone and porcelain
| factories The work is done by the piece.
and good turner in pottery establishment
| or enameller receives from Soc to 75c. per
diem. The best painters earn from 75c to
| 81 so per diem. The wages are graded
| downward from these maximum figures to
those paid boys and girls employed in the
similar operations, who earn from 10c to
| 15c. a day. AS | have remarked in a
previous letter, when speaking of the wages
| paid farm laborers in Japan, we of the
| West, with our exaggerated ideas of the
worth of labor and of the low purchasing
power of our corn, are apt to form false
| estimates when contemplating the scale of
| Japanese tastes are simple and wants few
and while from 75c. to 81 per diem would be
accounted starvation wages in Amerca they
in reality represent a very just and liberal
compensation in Japan.
l cannot better illustrate what mean
than by relating an incident which occurred
in Toxic the other day. A friend of mine
was met and accosted by Swede, who in
sisted upon talking with him.
What are you doing here!" said my
friend
II am working for japanese who is in
the iron business
"What are you getting"
-Four dollars a month"
''Four dollars month"; Why, man, that
will not keep soul and body together"
"Oh, yes, but it will l have good
boarding house, and get all the meat and
fish and bread want and only pay SO a
month y
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23
WHY PEOPLE BECOME BALD.
An Interesting Address on the Loss of
Hair--The Remedy.

Eair--The Remedy.
From the London Standard
AT the opening meeting Of the British
Theological Association, the inaugural adj
dress was delivered by Mr. G., H. Wheeler,
who said that it was the object of the British
Theological Association to trace the loss
of hair to its true cadses, to investigate the
secrets of nature, and learn the physiolog-
ical actions of remedies that would benefit
and assist nature to repair disordered func-
tions Out of 1900 men upon the "Medi-
cal Register he believed that scarcely
twenty had made special study of the
hair Hair falling might be induced by one
cause only, or by several acting together or
in succession, as facilitating influences,
nerve troubles, excitement, care, worry,
blood diseases hereditary predisposltion,
occupation, climate, mechanical obstruc-
ton, mental emotion, bad ventilation, high
temperature, vegetoid plants, and animal
parasites. The cause of badness was not
in the hair shaft, but in the faulty function
of nutrition, and although there were in
in this country some $4,000 so-called hair
dressers, their treatment had proved prac-
tically impotent to prevent, arrest, or
modify the progress OF badness. The asso-
citation was endeavoring TO establish nos
pital for the treatment OF hair diseases with
a staff of PSYCHOLOGISTS, and periodical lee
lures and demonstrations aud it behooved
them to impress upon the nation the advisa-
bility of giving the association charter,
and compelling every trichologist to pass an
examination before being allowed to prac-
tice
The habit of keeping the hair dry and
free from some kind of grease to assist the
depressed powers OF the hair was to his nina
source oil great deal Of badness out
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-23

We the undersigned Banks and Banker, ,Diu
puv all Prizes drauDl IN the Louisiana State Lot
fe,ies tohfcb poy he presented at our counters
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22
Democrats, Read This!

The Hagerstown Mail, sterling
Democratic paper, has the following
editorial article in its issue Of Octo-
Der Is:
Zone of the notable events of the
political campaign is the disclosure
that Senator German, John w. Da-
Wis, Mr.. Rasin and Mr.. Stevenson
Archer were in close conference al
Barnum's, in which they were en-
gagged upon two important subjects,
tO-Wit: One, the money that was
being raised and to be raised. and the
amounts named, could mean nothing
less than corrupt use of it in cleo
tons; and the other equally import
ant one YVES how to get rid of five
thousand Republican votes from the
registration lists in the city, and
which Senator German gave assur-
ances that Rasin had made provision
with the registers to strike that num-
Der off the registration lists.
1.-THE details Of this conference were
overheard by gentlemen in an adj
joining room, and the effort is now
made by the Sun and its brother bosses
and managers, that overheard con-
ferences should not be disclosed, how
ever wrong or wicked their intent or
purpose should be, and no more
wrongful or wicked purpose, we
think, could be than Of dsfranchis-
ing, by wholesale, voters of a differ
ent party, or of corrupting the ballot
box.
There can he no more heinous of
fansa aaainSt he Deople. tnTnnSertI-
ment or pubic morality than this.
But however much these bosses and
managers may try to drive side
Issue, there is no denial of the truth
OF the conference, or of the facts in
which it dealt, Not one has so fa.
dared to deny the truth ofall. Then
what do wee see ? John w. Davis is
the Assistant of the President of the
b. d O. Railroad. He is one of the
important persons, and being so near
the President, one of the confidential
officers of that company, presumed
to be devoted to its interests, and
actually employed and paid a large
salary to serve it.
AFTER This conference Senator
German proceeded to Baltimore
county and made a violent attack
upon the road. Was this understood
between John w. Davis and Senator
German at the time? Was it under.
stood that John w. Davis, holding
so high an Office on the road, was
sincerely ahetting Senator German in
his assaults upon it, or was it under
stood that the road and the supposed
public prejudice against it was to be
used by Senator German and the
other bosses to keep them in power.
and then when once more fortified
In power they would do what the
road wanted them to do, as they al.
ways did before ?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22

The Grill Service Refornaer, an in
dependent monthly Journal publish
ed in Baltimore. in the interest of
Civil Service Reform, has this to say
in reference to the nominees on the
Democratic State ticket:
But even if it were true that the
Democratic party, and not the bosses,
had made the State nominations, it
is palpably untrue that they are sex
cellent," in any sense that commands
the confidence of the people. Mr..
Whyte, the only man of any mark
on the ticket, is as VIGOROUSLY, and
has been as long and as unfavorably
associated with bossism and ring
methods, in all their phrases, as any
politician in the State. He is in fact
the author and founder of the Mary
land machine, though latterly, to
some retributive extent, its victim.
His last public appearance was in
support of the Ring or "Old Judge"
ticket in the canvass of 1882, which
ended in what we see that he prefers
to call his retirement" The Re-
formers of the State will not consider
his record of that date as very much
by their recollection of his
having made special personal visit,
since, to the President las the news
papers informed u.s. in the interest of
that commendable person, Mr..
Fred" Talbot. Mr.. Whyte is also
counsel of the West Virginia Rail-
way Company, the corporation on
whose particular behalf the spolita-
ton of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal was flagrantly attempted, at the
asst session of the General Assembly,
and, next to the capture of the judi
,iary for Ring judges, is, at this mo.
nent. the objective point of the Con-
Convention job.
OF the young Demostheness," Mr..
the excellent" eandi-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22
BaItimOre'S Influence "

The assistance given by a portion
of the press of New York to the in
dependent Democrats of Baltimore.
In their attempt to rid the party of
corrupt boss and ring rule, is declar-
ed by the hypocritical Sun of that
city to De blow at "Balttmore's in.
huence as commercial centre.u
What nonsense! New York has all
the business at the present time that
she can well attend to, and is as un.
conscious of rivalry as her newspa-
pers are free of personal or local mo.
tives in attacking political evils and
abuses. Did it hurt New York's sin.
huenee as a commercial centrev to
have the Tweed Ring overthrow. or
the Doodle Alderman sent to SING
Slug, and Jake Sharp convicted
Does an efficient registry and election
law, securing to New York the fair.
est voting and most honest counting
of any great city in the country, tend
to drive business away or sully the
fair fame" of our city?
The World denounces nothing in
Baltimore that it has not denounced
with much more vigor in its own
city. 1t favors nothing there that il
has not advocated for New York. |
Baltimore is VIGOROUSLY cursed, on
the unimpeached testimony of some |
Of its ablest, best-known and most
truly pubic-spirited citizens. with
and election laws that leave
an open door to fraud, with ballot box
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22

date for the comptrollership, it ought
to be enough to say that he is Mr..
Germans president and administra-
tor de b0niS non of the unhappy Ca
nal just mentioned, which it is now
proposed to pillage, under new con-
stitution to be framed for the pur-
pose, after having wrecked it under
the present one. After preposter-
ous-by some believed to have been
merely acknowledgements for the
gOYernorship. he was let down into
the second place, for the peculiar du-
ties of which, except in so far as they
have been taught him by his success
as a canal financier, the suggestion
that he is fit is too ludicrous for
Srieous discussion. Unless as a Ring
ster he is not a political entity at all.
Mr.. Jackson, the candidate for
Governor, whatever may be known
of him in business life, has never
been disclosed to the people of the
State at large, except as the political
associate, close friend and useful ally
of Mr.. German, to whose manipula-
tons exclusively his nomination is
due. That the last named statesman
would spend a year or more in get
ting up "boom" for any living man
as Governor, without seeing precise
~ how he could. himself, make
something out of the transaction, We
should do injustice to him and to his
tory by intimating. The career. of
Mr.. Jackson in the Senate of Mary
land, and especially the counten@e
and support which he gave. .ai@tse
last session, to the worst Of the Ring
projects, no doubt furnished as prac-
teal person as Mr.. German, with
a reasonable basis of experience in
his calculation of benefits to come
from his being seated in the guberna-
| torial chair,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22

their children the lesson of fratricidal
hatred and distrust. and they them
selves have been the first to unlearn
it. If General TImble, who left one
leg on the field of battle in the cause
OF the Confederacy ; Colonel Marsh
all, "the trusted friend and adviser
of General Lee - General Andrews,
whose only fault as a soldier, if he
had any, was his too great willing
ness to face danger and death. still
Scared with his many wounds, and
host of ether brave Confederate
officers from Maryland, are ready to
heartily support the Republican
ticket cannot Mr.. Whyte. Mr.. Car
ter and Mr.. Poe. who, if they left
the State, did so not to meet danger.
but to escape it, and Mr.. German,
who. during the whole war, received
salary as a Federal official, afford
to do the same ?-Baltim0re CiUiL
Service RefOrn1er.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22

suffers and return falsitiers. with
criminals in Office and spoilsmen and
petty bosses in control of the party
machinery. And yet every time that
outside sympathy is given to an at
tempt to reform these evils the cry
is raised by the shielderS and the part
ners of the rogues that the North
"hated Baltimore" during the war
and that New York is Jealous" of
their city.
If the honest voters of Baltimore
are Influenced by such bald appeals TO
their prejudices they will show a pet.
ty provincialism that augurs ill for
the "Inf1uence" Of their city.-N. Y
World, Democratic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22

The REPUBLICAN seems worried
about the Infringement of the Civil
law by the Deputy Internal
Revenue Collector in his "pernicious
shown during the late DEM
ocratic Convention in Oakland. Why
bless your simple soul, don't you
know that that's what the German
office-holders were made for, and
that the Civil Service Law don't Ego"
in this State Democrat.